Have you ever tried to get data fields from the address book and ran into the wonderful world of ABPerson reference only to find it reads like the blueprints to a space rocket?
Here is the straight out code on how to do it:
//Commented out code fails because the values are NOT STRINGS, but rather NSCFType)
//NSString *fone = (__bridge NSString*)ABRecordCopyValue(person, kABPersonPhoneProperty);
//self.telLabel.text = fone;
//This on the other hand, does work
ABMutableMultiValueRef phoneMulti = ABRecordCopyValue(person, kABPersonPhoneProperty);
CFStringRef fone = ABMultiValueCopyValueAtIndex(phoneMulti, 0);
NSString *foneObject = (__bridge NSString*)fone;
NSLog(@”phone is %@”,foneObject);
self.telLabel.text = foneObject;
CFRelease(fone);
//Haven’t tried with URL
//NSString *url = (__bridge NSString*)ABRecordCopyValue(person, kABPersonURLProperty);
//self.urlLabel.text = [NSString stringWithFormat:url];
//SocialProfiles are a bit different
//This didn’t seem to work
//CFStringRef social = ABMultiValueCopyValueAtIndex(socialMulti, 0);
//NSString *socialObject = (__bridge NSString*)social;
//NSLog(@”social is %@”,socialObject);
//self.twitterName.text = socialObject;
//CFRelease(social);
//So i tried this but I can’t seem to get the if statement to work
ABMutableMultiValueRef socialMulti = ABRecordCopyValue(person, kABPersonSocialProfileProperty);
NSMutableDictionary *mySocialDict = [NSMutableDictionary dictionaryWithCapacity:ABMultiValueGetCount(socialMulti)];
NSLog(@”entering social dict of count %ld”, ABMultiValueGetCount(socialMulti));
for (CFIndex i = 0; i < ABMultiValueGetCount(socialMulti); i++) {
CFStringRef socialLabel = ABAddressBookCopyLocalizedLabel(ABMultiValueCopyLabelAtIndex(socialMulti, i));
CFStringRef social = ABMultiValueCopyValueAtIndex(socialMulti, i);
if ([(__bridge NSString*)socialLabel isEqualToString:@"twitter"]) {
NSLog(@"we got a twitter");
}
[mySocialDict setObject:(__bridge NSString*)social forKey:(__bridge NSString*)socialLabel];
NSLog(@"social is %@",social);
CFRelease(social);
CFRelease(socialLabel);
}